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What about paypal donations in regards to the NFP transition? The proceeds |
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from the store will go towards Daniel's debt, and that has been agreed upon. |
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Will the donations go into an account that gets controlled by the NFP? |
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Cheers |
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- -C |
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On Saturday 17 April 2004 10:46 am, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> > Why not just have Gentoo NFP employ you in your cd-burning, |
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> > t-shirt-printing capacity, and have the NFP pay you a wage..? |
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> Eventually, I think it would be great for the NFP to run the Store, and pay |
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> someone a wage to fulfill t-shirt and CD orders. |
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> Why I'm not arranging that now is because it adds a lot more complexity |
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> (especially for me personally) to the NFP transition, which I'm |
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> intentionally trying to keep as simple as possible. Like I said, if anyone |
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> is interested in making a serious commitment to actually running the Store |
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> under the NFP, I'm willing to eventually transfer it to the NFP. Since I'm |
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> not planning to make a career out of CD and t-shirt sales, I'd rather not |
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> take the time and expense to make some kind of arrangment between the NFP |
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> and me right now. But let's get the NFP set up first. |
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> Until we (me/NFP) are ready to make a Store transition, I will continue |
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> running the Store, and the simplest way to do this is to just allow things |
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> to continue as they have. What I expect will happen is that the NFP will |
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> find much better sources of funding, and then they really won't be |
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> interested in the store. Then maybe some Gentoo developers can take it |
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> over, or run it for the NFP when I have something else to move on to. |
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> The Store needs to continue running to pay about $7-$10K USD of upcoming |
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> legal costs. It will pay for the NFP's initial legal expenses as well as |
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> all expenses associated with its application for 501(c)(6) status. |
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> I'm looking to get the NFP set up next week if possible. It will take about |
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> six months to receive 501(c)(6) status from the time it is applied for. |
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> Hope that helps, |
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> Daniel |
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